Platform device model drawback

[Peter Hanson]

On 11/17/05, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 09:51:56AM -0800, Peter Hanson wrote:
> > On 11/16/05, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 06:39:49PM -0800, Peter Hanson wrote:
> > > > IIRC, Arabella claims to deal nicely with dynamic allocation of
> > > > PowerPC resources to Linux devices =>
> > > > http://www.arabellasw.com/home.php
> > >
> > > I don't understand how that pertains to this thread...
> >
> > Potential conflict: multiple logical devices competing for the same
> > SoC resource.  Converse: similar logical devices supported by
> > different resources.  Both cases have been mentioned in this thread,
> > with confusion about how to deal with them.
> >
> > Does Arabella solve it as claimed?  I don't know.  But dynamic
> > allocation doesn't sound crazy.  Maybe some of the code or design can
> > even be copied.
>
> Do you have a pointer to their code anywhere?

I checked [http://www.arabellasw.com/products-free.php], and the
downloadable source is now gone.  :-(

> thanks,
>
> greg k-h